This is the second part of my Snake eater review and the second part in my series called The Metal gear chronicles.
In last weeks part we talked about the first attempt to rescue the Sovjet researcher called Sokolov, and how that turned in to a much more dangerous and critical mission. It ended with Snake entering Colonel Volgins massive base "Groznyj Grad" in search for his targets.
Surprisingly, Groznyj Grad is so vast that security can't cover it all. Snake easily makes his way to the facility where EVA said they were holding Sokolov, but to get in there you need special clearence. This comes in the form of a specific uniform. Captain Raikov Raidenovichs uniform. Raikov is Colonel Volgins "special friend" and he is the only one with all access in Groznyj Grad.
Snake acuires Raikovs uniform and stuffs his sedated body in a locker. He makes his way to Sokolov, and there he sees him talking to EVA. But EVA is disguised as Tanya, her cover identity. Sokolov hands her a microfilm containing all the excersise data from the Shagohod. EVA leaves and Snake moves in to get Sokolov but just as they are about to leave, Volgin enters. He quckly realises that Snake is wearing Raikovs uniform and after that it all goes black.
Snake wakes up. He is blindfolded and tied up, and all he can hear is Volgin torturing Sokolov, asking him where the data is, who's the spy. Sokolov only screams in pain and after a while he stops completely. The blindfold comes of and in the room is Volgin, EVA, The Boss and a GRU operative known as Ocelot. Snake remember him as the leader of the soldiers that have been chasing him the whole time. Volgin starts beating Snake, asking him how much the CIA really knows, what his mission is. The Boss tells Volgin it's no use. That Snake has been trained not to break, by her. He continues to hit him until a small tracking device falls of Snake. The Boss admit to have put it there, Volgins gets suspicious and asks her to cut out Snakes eyes as a sign of total loyalty.
Just as she is about to, EVA/Tanya stops her. This now makes Ocelot suspicious. He calls EVA out as the spy and to test her he forces a form of russian roulette on her. Just as the bullet is about to go off, snake pushes EVA out of the way. The bullet rips open his right eye. Volgin leaves, as do Ocelot. The Boss shoots Snake in the leg and and puts the gun in the waist of his pants and tells him to run.
Snake wakes up some time later in a jail cell. He manages to escape by jumping down a waterfall (Fugutive style) and lands in the river. After a near death experience, he meets up with EVA who helps him with his wounds.
Now that Sokolov is dead, the mission is simple. Destroy the Shagohod and kill Volgin. Snake heads back to Groznyj Grad and doesn't waste time. He places C3 explosives all around the Shagohod and starts the timer, but then he is caught by Volgin, The Boss and Ocelot. Tanya/EVA is there as well With the timer ticking Volgin is challenging Snake to a fair chance at survival, a fistfight. Right before they begin, The Biss escorts EVA /Tanya away from there. Snake see The Boss handing EVA/Tanya something.
Snake easily defeats Volgin, and with only seconds left on the timer he escapes the hangar. As he watches the whole facility go up in flames, he notices something moving in the fire. It's the Shagohod, Volgin somehow survived and is now gunning for snake in a jetpowered supertank. Out of nowhere EVA shows up on a motorcycle. Snake jumps in the sidecart and they escape with the Shagohod on their heels.
In a final showdown, Snake destroys the Shagohod and Volgin is struck by lightning and dies in the wreckage of his own "ultimate deterrent".
The end is is finally in sight and EVA and Snake make it to the escapecraft EVA had planned, but before they leave, Snake have one more objective.
In the middle of a meadow, filled with white flowers, The Boss tells Snake why she defected. She was always loyal to the mission, it was the enemies who changed. She had become pregnant Years prior to this, but the military had taken the baby and used it as leverage to make her kill one of her own. The sorrow, of COBRA unit, who was also the father of the child.
A emotional battle begins, but in the end, The Boss forces Snake to end it by shooting her.
EVA and Snake board the plane and head for Alaska. There they spend a night together. Snake lets himself go for the first time and he feels alive for the first time in years. When he wakes up the morning after, EVA is gone. All that is left us a tape with a message on it. EVA tells snake that she was actually not an American spy. She was working for the Chinese government all along. Her mission was to find the location of the philosophers legacy and that The Boss had given her the location there in the hangar. The Boss had never betrayed America. She was given orders to defect so as to buy her way into Volgins closest circle and find the Philosophers legacy. She sacrificed everything for the mission, her reputation, her rank, her freedom. All for the good of The American people.
Snake returns to Washington where he is awarded the title of Big Boss by the President. Just as he is about to leave, he sees Ocelot peeking in through a window and smiling at him. He shakes it of and heads for the soldiers cemetary. He walks up to a gravestone and places The Bosses gun and some white lillies on the grave, and as a single tear rolls down his cheek he salutes.
ROLL CREDITDS
After the credits we hear someone making a phone call. Someone on the other line answers and Ocelot speaks. He tells this person that the threat has been neutralised and that Khuschev is finished and that this person is now at the helm ov the Sovjet union. He hangs up and makes another call. This time to an American. It seems he had been the real American spy all along. He had made sure that the location EVA had recieved from The Boss was fake, and the real location was now in the hands of America. He ends the conversation with the words "with this money the Philosophers can rise again, even if it's only half. Of course I am always at the disposal of the CIA...Mr director"
And so ends the first story in The Metal Gear chronicles. The next time we will be discussing how Snake, now Big Boss, was kidnapped by his own people for the purpose of finding the other half of the Philosophers legacy, in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops.
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